Review of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988) by Eva M — 13 Mar 2012
A thoroughly pleasurable experience of Michael Cain and Steve Martin's superb performance as they play a high-class gigolo and a miserable lowlife feeding on the compassionate women. Unable to divide a small town full of the well-off representatives of the weaker sex between themselves, they set out for a contest to win the heart and the purse of a 'soap queen', a young and beautiful heiress of a detergent industry empire.
They promise each other that the looser would leave the town. After an avalanche of tricks aimed to win the young lady's attention, they find out in her own words, that she is a poor soap consumer who won a title 'queen' with a very moderate prize.
Touched, the scoundrels eagerly part with their fortunes in order to reward her kind-heartedness just to later discover she had them on. Remarkably laughable.
This review of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988) was written by Eva M on 13 Mar 2012.
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels has generally received very positive reviews.
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